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One day it will not exist. MICHEL SABBAH This position and the confiscation of lands have no reason at all. (The wall) doesn't benefit the se... MICHEL SABBAH The beginning of the Palestinian freedom is also a beginning of reconciliation between the two peopl... MICHEL SABBAH God has brought together Jews, Christians and Muslims to this holy land. No human power can change i... MICHEL SABBAH Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace, MICHEL SABBAH MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution. MICHEL TEMER Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside... MICHEL TEMER MICHEL FABER The mines have claimed many victims on the allied side. MICHEL DIATTA When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to ... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany... 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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into i... 
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. 
You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harr... 
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... 
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ... 
[Fifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or so... 
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship... 
It is very interesting how humanity has linked love to the lack of freedom. I think that when you fi... 
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the expe... 
Did you tell that prospect over there that ‘not a hair’ on my head was to be touched?” “I th... 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things ... 
Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can r... 
You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you h... 
Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often e... 
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away. 
Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... 
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p... 
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save ... 
Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much. 
There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whethe... 
There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant w... 
He leaned against the window, and the gilded frame came into sharp focus. “Do you think it would b... 
Be yourself, be who you can be. 
My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the... 
A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it. 
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have... 
The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him. 
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. 
Take hold of your passing time and convert it into living your dreams. Only then can you truly fulfi... 
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a ... 
You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country... 
True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that w... 
It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consci... 
In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is b... 
I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love. 
I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal... 
It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, an... 
Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alch... 
Don't let your focus be so much on how many times you go on a date but how you can build into one an... 
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo... 
I've only done some work on (the screenplay), and I find it very difficult, actually. Because you ca... 
So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can&... 
There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded pr... 
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in st... 
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. 
This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize th... 
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you h... 
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac... 
You should read something else."
You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi... 
I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for body... 
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We gener... 
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. 
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the... 
For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoi... 
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but en... 
People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks ... 
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the perso... 
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.